Part 1 The psychotherapies and their application to psychiatry: introduction - analytic psychotherapy, J. Holmes; a history of psychodynamuc psychiatry, M. Pines; group processes in psychiatry, M. Hobbs; behavioural psychiatry, I. Falloon; family therapy, J. Hill; active and non-verbal psychotherapeutic approaches, R. Tillett. Part 2 Basic techniques: learning to listen - teaching and supervising basic psychotherapeutic skills, F. Margison; brief psychotherapy, P. Ashurst; supportive psychotherapy, S. Hartland. Part 3 Psychotherapeutic approaches to psychiatric disorders: anxiety and stress-related disorders, M. Aveline; depression, A. Ryle; suicidal acts, D. Cambell and R. Hale; psychotic disorders, M. Jackson; borderline personality disorder, A. Bateman; social maladjustment, P. Gallwey; psychosomatic disorders, P. Shoenberg; anorexia nervosa, C. Dare; the addictions, A. Read. Part 4 Psychotherapy with special groups: psychotherapy with adolescents, P. Wilson; psychotherapy with the elderly, R. Porter; psychotherapy with those people who have been sexually abused, S. Grant; psychotherapy with survivors of disasters, C. Garland.